Meet our Venture Partner: Chalinda

Chalinda Abeykoon joins the team as our Venture Partner. He’s worked in the startup ecosystem since 2010 and is excited to join the team and focus on startups and investors across the region. He joined Lankan Angel Network when they setup a Micro-VC Fund to support early-stage startups and pitched to over 200 LPs, now he’s on the other side of the table.

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Unlocking the potential of great partnerships between startups and corporates

Accelerating Asia is most well-known for our work with startups through our flagship accelerator and venture fund. But not many people know we actually do a whole lot of work with a much wider group of players in the ecosystem. We work closely with governments, development organisations, multinationals and universities on increasing the quality of their engagements with startups – through their own programs, or through some of ours.

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Meet Gideon: our Venture Intern

Meet Gideon, our Venture Intern. He’s interned at Saison Capital and is a volunteer with Shaper Impact Capital and UNDP Cambodia’s Bluetribe Incubator. Gideon’s looking forward to contributing to the SME and startup space in Singapore as an Enterprise Singapore Scholar after completing my Economics & Management course at Oxford.

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Meet our Venture Partner: Amar Bedi

Amar joins the team as our Venture Partner. He is an entrepreneur, certified yoga teacher and coach. Driven by a curiosity to unlock potential, he has held senior leadership roles in various tech companies and was previously Head of Enterprise Partnerships at Grab.

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How we invest in startups

Accelerating Asia’s flagship 100-day award-winning startup accelerator is backed by our early-stage Venture Capital Fund regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Through our Fund, we invest in the high-growth, pre-Series A startups we accelerate from across the region.

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Amplify Startup Spotlight: Jagofon

Jagofon is an early-stage startup that was incorporated in July 2020, they’re now at the market validation stage with early customers and partnerships in place. Here, we talk with Co-Founder Stephane about Jagofon and what’s next. Jagofon was part of our first Amplify cohort, Amplify is a 6 module program that delivers a how-to guide to raising outside capital and 10x’ing your startup growth,

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Amplify Startup Spotlight: ParkingKoi

ParkingKoi™ was part of our first Amplify cohort, Amplify is a 6 module program that delivers a how-to guide to raising outside capital and 10x’ing your startup growth. Started in 2018, ParkingKoi™ is transforming how people find parking spaces in Bangladesh with plans to expand to Pakistan and Nepal. Here we talk to Founder Rafat Rahman about their startup.

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